[NYFF Review] My Week with Marilyn
Michelle Williams is so good as the title character in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn that watching the film is like watching Some Like it Hot for the f...
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[NYFF Review] The Kid With a Bike
The Dardenne brothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc) are known for a very particular brand of cinema. After a collaborating on a number of documentaries, the Dardennes s...
[NYFF Review] Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
You can find Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory at the rarefied juncture where reality and art meet, with each pulling the other to form something greater than simp...
[NYFF Review] George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Martin Scorsese, in his six decade-spanning career, has arguably never met a challenge he was incapable of conquering. Yet he faces a unique test in George ...
[NYFF Review] Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
The first two-thirds or so of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia -- his first film since 2008's Three Monkeys, which earned him a Best Directo...
[NYFF Review] Tahrir
The most striking emotion you experience watching Tahrir, the cinéma vérité-styled documentary directed and filmed by Stefano Savona, is joy. And not just w...
[NYFF Review] A Separation
In its 49th year, the New York Film Festival boasts a wide-array of striking and rightfully heralded cinema, including several foreign-language Oscar hopefuls. ...
Golden Bear Winner ‘A Separation’ International Trailer
The Iranian drama A Separation will make its NY premiere tomorrow evening as part of the 49th New York Film Festival (buy tickets here) (read my rave review her...
Race Begins For Best Foreign-Language Oscar
Earlier in the month we celebrated with Happy Happy director Anne Sewitsky when her dulcet dogme dramedy was selected as Norway's submission for the 84th An...
‘Crazy Horse’ Trailer: Frederick Wiseman Explores The NSFW World of French Cabaret
Frederick Wiseman will cross the 82-year-old mark next year and the man is still churning out documentaries. After delivering two the best in the genre with...